Block 847038: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 1 Livestream
- Trump 47 Fundraising Committee Partners with OpenNode to Accept Bitcoin Donations (UPDATED)
- Michael Saylor to Pay a District Record $40M Settlement in D.C. Income Tax Case
- Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 2 Livestream
- Oslo Freedom Forum 2024: Financial Freedom Track Livestream
- HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants 10 BTC to 13 Bitcoin Projects
- Nigerian Banks Can Start Collecting Customers’ Social Media Handles for KYC Checks, High Court Rules
- Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp in $200M Deal
- Roger Ver Released on $160K Bail in Spain
Updates and releases
- Labelbase v2.2.0: Derive Addresses Feature
- Ark Labs Launched to Maintain Open Implementation & Build Services for the Ark Protocol
- SimpleX Chat v5.8: Private Message Routing
- OpenCash Association Launched to Support Projects Building on Cashu Protocol
- Volt Wallet: A Modern Descriptor-based Financial Freedom Bitcoin Wallet
- BTCPay Server v1.13.2: BoltCard Plugin, Refund Reports, Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Core Lightning v24.05: 'The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi'
- Open Beta of Clams Bitcoin Accounting App Launched
- Ginger Wallet: Wasabi Wallet Fork with 'Compliant' Coinjoins
- Cake Wallet to Integrate Lightning Network Support with Breez SDK
Research
- Empty Block Report - mempool research
- Burak Introduces Ark v2 with Liquidity-efficient Design
- Bitcoin Optech #306: Disclosure of Vulnerabilities Affecting Older Versions of Bitcoin Core
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has adjusted down to 83.72T (-0.79%).
- The hashrate of the network (7day SMA) is currently at ~593 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning Network capacity has once again surpassed 5000 BTC.
- The number of active nodes has risen above 13000, and there are 500 more channels on the network this week, per mempool.space.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol has welcomed over 5000 new users this week.
